2011: Microsoft’s Year of Mystery

After the busy holiday-season dust settled, a though occurred to us: we really don’t have a fleshed-out feel for what Microsoft has in store for us next year. Thing is, most gamers probably don’t care too much right now. And that’s just the way Microsoft wants it.

Core gamers have their hands full with “Halo: Reach” and “Call of Duty: Black Ops”. This frees up the marketing wizards at Microsoft to keep as much focus possible on Kinect, building demand and momentum for the motion-sensing peripheral.

Who is Chris?

For more than 25 years, Chris Morris has covered the financial world - and explored the business side of a variety of non-traditional businesses. He has held senior management roles at CNN, Yahoo! Finance and Forbes,

In 2009, though, he made the decision to return to his writing and reporting roots, with a focus on areas he has long covered, including video games, consumer electronics, personal finance. (He continues to keep an eye on those non-traditional fields as well.)